16 days to go. Brilliant to get another two entries today in quick succession. Entry number 88 came in from the Rotary Club of Cairns Mulgrave , making it a magnificent 9 entries for District 9550 , Queensland, Australia. Then entry number 89 from the St Catherine's earlyact club in D9270 South Africa.
As announced on the Facebook group page earlier, now firmly on the look out for wider media coverage. The advantage of twitter is that there are no shortage of active journalists , sports bloggers and writers out there. Locally to us, we have great support from our local paper the Grantham Journal and that has carried on with twitter connections. In Comoros's paper, there will be a huge spread of pages devoted to local swimarathon which we will share with you when they are digitally available. My media campaigning got off to a great start in the pool with them last Friday afternoon as the 1st of 7 swim teams I swam with - and this afternoon I got a call from one of the journalists following up on my £2012 in 2012 marathon swimarathon efforts and an extra feature should be in there - every bit helps!
Also had some great retweets from the @britishswimming official twitter account , and a good number of fellow Rotarians and sporting contacts. Mark Shardlow of East Midlands Today Sports our local BBC regional broadcaster has emailed back to us with definite interest in covering the event, and we have a contact within Sky Sports news. Plenty more to come on that over the next few weeks.
Remember, when you are talking about your event please use #rotaryglobalswim so that we can share and highlight. Don't forget to bookmark and keep a record of any local news or media coverage you receive and make an extra copy so that can be included with your official world record submission.
Hoping to announce that 90th official entry very soon- watch this space!!
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